White shark (Carcharodon carcharias), Thinned satellite data (PSAT and SPOT), All pseudo-absence/background points, Full extent, all covariates (u and v become vel_mag), evaluated using all metrics

Random Forest Nowcast and Forecast

Boosted Trees Nowcast and Forecast

Maxnet Trees Nowcast and Forecast

GAM Nowcast and Forecast

GLM Nowcast and Forecast

Metrics

Metrics by model type

model_type	accuracy	boyce_cont	roc_auc	tss_max	brier_class
rf	0.9552716	0.9539403	0.9949606	0.9638809	NA
bt	0.8154952	0.9866738	0.8522369	0.5860093	NA
maxnet	0.6733227	0.9785730	0.8047027	0.4804066	NA
gam	0.7867412	0.9829405	0.7985601	0.4962365	0.1429480
glm	0.7571885	0.8529308	0.7513230	0.4549000	0.1546168

Variable Importance